Health services in Gaza are “decimated”, with medical staff exhausted after three months of war forced to extract shrapnel without adequate pain relief, conduct amputations without anaesthetics and watch children die of cancers because of a lack of facilities and medicine.
Dozens of interviews with doctors and medical administrators in Gaza reveal a catastrophic and deteriorating situation as health services struggle to cope with tens of thousands of casualties of the continuing Israeli offensive in the territory and the effects of the acute humanitarian crisis.
Attention has focused on the direct casualties of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, but medical specialists are increasingly concerned about indirect victims of the war.
There is nothing indirect about the deaths the isrealis are afflicting. It’s a direct effect and one they planned for.
Yes, a totally calculated Palestinian Genocide.
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Health services in Gaza are “decimated”, with medical staff exhausted after three months of war forced to extract shrapnel without adequate pain relief, conduct amputations without anaesthetics and watch children die of cancers because of a lack of facilities and medicine.
Dozens of interviews with doctors and medical administrators in Gaza reveal a catastrophic and deteriorating situation as health services struggle to cope with tens of thousands of casualties of the continuing Israeli offensive in the territory and the effects of the acute humanitarian crisis.
The children all have diarrhoea or chest infections and there is a lot of hepatitis A now too,” said Hussein Awda, 37, who has been living with his family in a UN vocational training college west of Khan Younis since his home was destroyed and many relatives killed at the beginning of the war.
The hospital, which the World Health Organization described as “a death zone” after it largely ceased operations following raids and occupation by Israeli troops in November, has restarted basic services.
In December a doctor in Gaza City was forced to amputate the lower part of his niece’s leg without anaesthetics on a table at home after she was injured when the house was hit by a shell and intense Israeli fire in the area made it too dangerous to try to reach Shifa, normally a six-minute drive away.
Earlier this week, Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, said only more supplies could reverse the “degrading humanitarian situation in Gaza”.
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